Sunday, August 22, 2010

Musical coincidence.

So I'm driving down the freeway yesterday, listening to Moby's cover of "New Dawn Fades" on the iPod, best known as the tune from the Heat soundtrack playing when Hanna pulls over McAuley, and the next song the thing offers up in shuffle mode is the original Joy Division recording of "New Dawn Fades". What are the odds of that?

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Actually, since it would be a permutation (order matters) and not a simple combination, it would be (2x512)-2 I think. I'm not so good with the math, but I know you've got to take into account the odds of the one song playing, then the other, not just the second song playing at any given time.

Take a look at who touched some of the things written before 1949 and you'll be pretty suspicious too. Ever see what that Mozart guy was up to? Liszt sold dog hair as his own, Tchaikovsky had to hold his head on while he conducted. The Big Bands had been instrumental in the whole practice of Payola, Ozzie Lenson couldn't even read music!!

BS in music is not new. BS in everything is not new. It just comes at you faster the older you get.

I've had Miles Davis's Equinox come up right after the band Clutch's cover of the same song. The sad thing is, up until that moment I hadn't realized they were the same song. They're just played so differently I never connected the dots.